The Chinese public is now looking with suspicion at the remedies meant to heal their illnesses, after a raft of media reports claimed the products of a trusted pharmacy for traditional Chinese medicine were contaminated with mercury.
Ms. Xiao Hongyun, a teacher at Changde Normal School in Hunan Province, usually suffers dizziness, tinnitus, and palpitations the day before an earthquake occurs. She has suffered these symptoms in conjunction with earthquakes in China as well as in Taiwan and Chile.